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The Underground Railroad
swamps that ran through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The swamps gave protection from the dogs of bounty catchers but had poisonus snakes in them. Abolitionists helped the slaves very much. Some offered food and shelter and some took the across the borders. They used a series of signals like quilts or a lantern to signal to the slaves that this was a safe house. Slaves caught escaping were severily beat and punished by their owners. Mostly black, young males escaped to the -
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The Underground Railroad was a system of passages that helped escaping slaves get to freedom in the north. Slaves would start the escape in the south and had options on where to go. They could take a route like the Mississippi River where they had no physical drain but had high patrol to deal with. They also had the route of the Appalachian Mts. that had very good hiding places but you must be in very good shape to go over the mountains and rough terrain. Another well known route was the -
The Missouri Compromise
When the Missouri Compromise was first came up with, there was a lot of arguing of whether Missouri should come into the union as a slave or free state. Over a period of time, we came up with a way to make the majority of people happy about the situation.Some flaws in the Missouri Compromise are that not all people are going to be happy with the Missouri becoming a slave state. By making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state, the states are now even as far as slave and free states, b -
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The Missouri Compromise
ut the north wants more free and the south wants more slave.Both sides of the debate had some pretty good points on what they believed. The south said that there had already been slave holders migrating into Missouri. When everybody tried to make a compromise, the south said that they had the right to accept or deny statehood but not make a compromise and said that if the new states had to make a compromise, then they would not be equal to the old states. The northern congressman James Tallm -
The Missouri Compromise
lmadge of New York said that no more slaves be brought into the territory and that when slave children reach 25, they be released. The north said that they thought slavery was very wrong and did not want anymore in our country.In result, the 36-30 line was created. This meant that anything below this line was a slave state. Anything above this line was a free state with the exception of Missouri. Maine was made a free state to even out free and slave states. Most people were probably fine -
Nat Turners Rebellion
after being captured. Gray may have lied to make Turner sound like a huge monster. Plantation owners were reimbursed for their lost slaves. Not all slaves were bad or on Turners side though. Some tried to protect their masters when the rebels came. After the rebellion, slave owners were scared and taking no chances. They killed 200 slaves in a mob. All slaves were now limited and not allowed to do anything. After this, slaves are going to want their freedom even more. -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner was very intelligent and religious. He was a slave and owned by the Travis family. He was not happy about being a slave and wanted to do something about it. Turner led 60-70 slaves against plantation owners in Virginia. The first family he killed, was the Travis family. Him and his rebellion killed around 60 families. After his rebellion, the Army was called to respond. They were ordered to send 3,000 troops to capture his Nats rebels. Turner was interviewed by Thomas Gray -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 had five parts to it. The first, California was allowed to become a free state. It decided what we would do with the land gained from the Mexican War. The land we gained was split into different territories and people that lived in these territories would be voting to decide whether they wanted slave or free territory. Although slavery was allowed, slave trade in Washington, D.C was banned. A fight had been going on over where the Texas border was. The compromise -
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settled the border fight and Texas gave up the land they were fighting for. Finally, the compromise passed the Fugitive Slave Act stating that runaway slaves in the north could be brought back down to the south and returned to their owner. Abolitionists who hid slaves would be fined or arrested if caught hiding runaways. This made life of the slaves much harder in the south. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He had two reasons for trying to get this passed. First, he wanted to link Chicago to the west by building railroads. Second, he wanted to become president and thought this would help to get votes. This act stated that the 36*-30* line be forgoten about and that new territories have popular sovereignty. The south supported this because they thought Kansas and Nebraska may become slave states. The north did not like this act because they -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
the south was gaining power. Stephen Douglas thought the north would be okay with this because they thought Nebraska and Kansas would both become free. If the new territories become slave, the north would be mad but if they were free, the north would have more free states than the south would have slave states. -
Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott was a black male that had been born a slave. Dred scott was sold to an army surgeon and was taken to the free state of Illinois for 12 years. The surgeon who owned Scott died and Scott was taken back to Missouri. He wanted to be a free man but did not want to try to flee. He felt he had a valid point in being in a free state for 12 years so he tried to sue for his freedom. After his trial, Chief Justice Tawney ruled that he did not even have the right to sue because he was not a -
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citizen. On top of that, considering Scott was a slave and he was owned as property, the 5th ammendment stated that property could not be taken away so Scott had lost the case. This set a spark to the nation. Abolitionists thought that he had the right to stay a free man considering he lived in a free state for 12 years. Although Scott did not win the case, he was later sold to a new owner, and this owner gave him his freedom. He had died a free man. -
Bleeding Kansas
The tension began when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. People such as New Englanders to fight against slavery. Free landers were people who moved into territories in order to vote and make the new territory a free state. People moved also from southern states to make the new territories a slave state. David Walker led a group of men to a place near Pottawatomie River and killed 5 proslavery men in front of their families. John Browns raid was also part of "Bleeding Kansas." -
John Brown
John Brown was a very popular abolitionist. He moved all around the country to where he thought he could make an impact against slavery. He gathered up 21 men and took them to Harpers Ferry arsenal and took a bunch of guns. His plan was to give guns to slaves in Virginia and get them to rise up against their owner. He was stopped short when the army was ordered to stop him. He was eventually hanged. -
The Presidential Election of 1860
slavery, the south was mad because he did not have a single southern vote. Lincoln was not going to abolish slavery, he just was not going to expand slavery. This event only increased the tension between the country. Later on, South Carolina would be the first to succede from the Union followed by other states. Lincoln refused to consider them their own country. -
The Presidential Election of 1860
The Presidential Election of 1860 was a huge election. The north did not want a Democrat to win in fear that they would expand slavery into the new territories. The south did not want a Republican to win in fear that slavery would be abolished. The Democratic candidate was John Breckinridge. The Republican candidate was Abraham Lincoln although he was not the first option. Lincoln ending up squeezing out the victory over Breckinridge. Although Lincoln had only a moderate view toward -
Attack On Fort Sumter
After Abraham Lincoln had won the election of 1860 the south was extremely upset. South Carolina had already succeded and other states were soon to follow. Lincoln ordered supplies be brought to Fort Sumter by ship to supply troops with food and other supplies. The south had other plans. The south had ships get to Fort Sumter before the supplies and they started bombing the Fort. This got Lincoln outraged and this would start the Civil War.
